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| The steamboat Hendrick Hudson was put into service in 1906 at a cost of almost a million dollars. She had an advertized length of over 400 feet and was able to carry 5,500 passengers. |
The other day I found this picture of the Hudson Day Line steamboat Hendrick Hudson in an old picture book. Quite a ship!
The Hudson River Maritime Museum page gives some additional information about a bygone era of steamships on the Hudson river:
Of the many Hudson River steamboat lines, the Hudson River Day Line was the most prominent and dependable. Their steamboats were known for elegance and speed, and provided the most enjoyable way to travel the Hudson River. No one could claim to have seen America without seeing the Hudson River, and the only way to properly see the Hudson River was from the deck of a Day Liner steamboat.
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For over 150 years, steamboats carried freight and passengers on the Hudson River, but in 1948, regular steamboat service by the Hudson River Day Line between Albany and New York ceased. On September 13, 1948, the Day Line steamboat Robert Fulton made its last run from Albany to New York City bringing to an end the era of gracious steamboat travel on the Hudson River
As a young lad we took the dayliners up to Bear Mountain and or Indian Point. The ships were spotless and I remember 3, SS Hendrick Hudson, SS Claremont and the SS Robert Fulton. The river was quite beautiful and it was a great excursion. I progressed to become a sailor in the 50's and much later worked on the triple expansion steam engine of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, a liberty ship, which still runs on San Francisco Bay.
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